"I'm doing this, my Dreaming, and now you know" : on contemporary 'totemism', art, and cosmology

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Label

"I'm doing this, my Dreaming, and now you know" : on contemporary 'totemism', art, and cosmology

Title remainder

on contemporary 'totemism', art, and cosmology

Statement of responsibility

Yasmine Musharbash

Creator

• Musharbash, Yasmine

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Anthropology - Theory and criticism
• Art - Art motifs - Dot
• Art - Painting - Acrylic
• Aboriginal Australians -- Family relationships
• Religion - Totemism
• Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
• Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Sections and subsections
• Totemism -- Australia
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Language

eng

Summary

Discussion and interpretation of Warlpiri dot painting; introduction to the Warlpiri community at Yuendumu; review and critique of Levi-Strauss's work on totemism; kinship and cosmology -subsection system, kumunjayi (name avoidance), marriage rules, concept of the Dreaming (Jukurrpa) and designs (Kuruwarri); male and female ritual - kirda and kurdungulu division; processes of change - exchange incorporation of new rituals - northern fertility cults, western objects - video ownership, watching and production; the contextual meanings of Warlpiri acrylic art production - description and analysis of a painting by Jakamarra - process of production

Cataloging source

AIAS

Dissertation note

Thesis (M.A.) -- Freie Universität Berlin, 1997.

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography